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Kitchen furniture from a workshop or factory comes in a disassembled state. You can entrust the assembly to specialists, but few people are able to do better than the owner. Only those that work “as for themselves”, and these are extremely rare. Therefore, many people prefer to assemble a kitchen set on their own. It will take a decent amount of time, but the quality will be on top.
Tools
Before assembling a kitchen set, you need to assemble a tool for work. Simple tools are required, but they greatly speed up and simplify the work.
- Screwdriver or screwdriver set.
- Drill with drills of different diameters.
- If the walls are concrete or brick, you need a puncher – drill holes for the fasteners of the upper cabinets.
- A hacksaw or jigsaw may be required.
- Hex wrench – for fasteners (may come in a set).
- Hammer, ruler, square, bubble level.
Building your own kitchen can take a day or more
It’s nice to have a plane builder or a laser level. With it, placing cabinets in the same plane is much easier.
Assembly of kitchen cabinets
The disassembled kitchen set is a set of planks of different sizes, a certain amount of fittings and a set of fasteners. From all this it is necessary to assemble cabinets. Usually there are mounted and floor. How to assemble a kitchen set, in what order – the choice is yours. It is more convenient for some masters to assemble them in pairs – the upper one, then the lower one, and install them like that. But there are two other ways: first collect all the upper ones, hang them on the wall, then all the lower ones. They do it and vice versa – they assemble and install the lower ones, then the upper ones. In general, any method is correct, do as you like.
Assembly of wall cabinets
In any case, we begin to collect cabinets. An ordinary wall cabinet consists of two side panels, a top, a bottom, a back wall made of HDPE and two doors – a facade. The build order is:
Hinge installation
They finally hang the facades (doors) after they assemble and put everything in place, but put the hinges from the very beginning. They are mortise (considered more reliable) and overhead.
The attachment points are marked on the sidewall and the door with holes. We fold the sidewall and the door on a flat surface (table or floor) close to each other, aligning the marks. We put the loops in place (they are included). Screw first to the sidewall, then to the facade. The door at the same time turns out to be slightly lower in level than the sidewall. Under it, put a bar of a suitable size or a folded rag so that it is on the same level, then we fasten the loop.
We disassemble the loop itself (it consists of two detachable loops that are connected with a screw. We unscrew this screw, set the doors aside, and work further with the sidewalls.
We collect the case
We attach the top and bottom to the sides. They are attached to confirmations – special furniture fasteners that come with the kit, with a hexagon head. If there is a corresponding bit, we put it on a screwdriver, if not, we work with a manual wrench.
The places for installing confirmations are marked on the outer part of the sidewalls. We fold the sidewall and the upper part, install the fasteners, then the bottom, and then the second sidewall.
We turn the “face” down, lay and align the sheet of laminated fiberboard, which serves as the back wall. It is nailed with small carnations or staples from a construction stapler. First, they are nailed in the corners, carefully aligning the edges, then in the middle of each side and further, dividing each section in half. As a result, the installation frequency is 1 nail/staple approximately 10 cm.
Installation of corners or hinges, shelf holders
The hinges on which wall-mounted kitchen cabinets are hung are different, they are installed in different ways. We’ll talk more about them below. Shelf holders are also different in material and shape, but they are attached basically the same way – into the holes in the wall. Under them, holes are drilled in the sides. Sometimes we install plastic chopsticks (small hollow plastic cylinders) in them, hammer them in by lightly tapping with a furniture hammer, then we put shelves stops in them. But most metal stops (namely, these are probably needed in kitchen cabinets) are simply placed in the hole.
Actually, you know how to assemble a wall-mounted kitchen cabinet. For a visual demonstration, watch the video. Floor cabinets with shelves without drawers are also assembled, only first legs are installed on the bottom and the upper part is a table top, and it is common to all cabinets and is placed after all floor cabinets are installed and fastened.
Assembling a cabinet with drawers
We continue to collect the kitchen set with our own hands. Now the most difficult moment is cabinets with drawers. The general procedure is as follows: install the hinges, the bottom and the back wall. The top-tabletop is placed after all the cabinets are assembled and fastened together with ties. There are more features – you need to attach drawer guides to the sidewalls. Go.
Installing the legs
Before assembling the kitchen set, legs are installed further to the bottom. You can install the legs even after the frame is assembled, but twisting a heavy nightstand is not very easy. In any case, it is best if they are adjustable – the floor is not always perfectly flat. With adjustable legs, it is possible to set them so that the load is redistributed to all legs. On small cabinets – up to 80 cm long – put 4 stops, more than 80 cm 6 reference points are needed.
If the cabinet has a partition, we place the legs under it. If there is no partition – in the middle. 5-8 cm recede from the edges, screwed onto self-tapping screws 15 mm long (with a chipboard thickness of 18 mm). In most finished furniture, under the legs there is also a countersink – holes of small diameter. Align the slots in the legs with the holes, install the screws.
Installation of rails and assembly for drawers
On the sides of the lower cabinets there are markings for the installation of guides (they are included). For their fastening, an M6 * 13 euro screw is used. We set the required number of guides on both sidewalls.
The boxes are assembled with screws 4*45. Guides are installed first. Depending on the design, they can be mounted on the walls of the box or on the lower edge of the sidewall. If there are markings (holes) on the wall, then they are placed on the sidewalls. If not – to the end. To be sure, look at the assembly instructions. There should be an installation process in the pictures.
After the guides are connected, the sidewalls are connected to the back wall, then the front wall is installed, then the bottom. Before installing the bottom, check the diagonals. They must match to the millimeter. The bottom is fastened with nails or staples.
We collect the case
The assembly of the case is already familiar: we attach the lid to the sidewalls, then the lower part with the legs. We put the cabinet in place, twist the legs so that the top cover is at the desired height and is horizontal. We check the horizon with a bubble or laser level. Then install the covers.
Features of the assembly of the corner cabinet
The main feature is that in budget kitchen sets the bottom consists of two parts (to reduce costs). If this cabinet provides for the installation of a sink, the back wall is almost absent, but there are several couplers-collets that give rigidity to the structure. Otherwise, everything is the same as when assembling a conventional cabinet with doors.
How to hang cabinets in the kitchen
Even before assembling a kitchen set, it is necessary to purchase canopies and intersectional furniture ties for attaching wall cabinets. Let’s start with canopies, they come in different types, so we’ll talk about them.
You already know how to assemble a kitchen set, you need to figure out how to install it in place. Hanging kitchen cabinets are mounted on the wall. They are fastened with furniture canopies. They come in the form of metal plates with holes for fasteners, but there are also more complex designs. Cheaper ones are ordinary metal plates. They can be of various shapes, made of ordinary or galvanized steel.
simple awnings
The most common option (top left) is a plate with two small holes for fasteners and one large one (a hook or a screw head installed in the wall is inserted into it). It is installed on the end of the sidewalls – on the right and left. With a heavy load, this type of canopy can break out, since the fasteners are at a small distance from each other and the chipboard can fall apart. The bottom option is more reliable – more fasteners, but there is still a risk.
The other two types of furniture canopies are more reliable, since one of the screws will also be installed in the cabinet lid, that is, the load will be distributed over a larger area.
The corners performed well. One edge of this canopy is attached through the cover. A through hole is made, a bolt with a washer is installed at the bottom, and a nut is tightened from above (also with a washer). They are installed at a distance of 5-10 cm from the edge, if a large load is expected, you can put three or four pieces, which is impossible with previous models.
The common disadvantage of all these mounts is that they are not adjustable. As hung, so be it. There is no way to move away from the wall or towards the wall. If the kitchen apron protrudes above the plane. walls, you have to mount a bar on the wall or select a lining for each fastener (a piece of plywood, a piece of wood, etc.). The second drawback is that a separate hook or dowel must be installed under each canopy. Not very comfortable.
Adjustable
A more complex and expensive canopy consists of a plastic housing, a metal canopy and an adjustment system that allows you to move it forward / backward and up / down. These canopies are attached to the side walls of the cabinet from the inside, a small hole is cut in the back wall. Paired with these canopies is a mounting rail or bar. It is attached to the wall, hooks of canopies cling to its upper ledge. Installing and removing wall cabinets with this mounting system is very simple, and they have a sufficient “load capacity” of 20-50 kg per canopy (depending on the model and manufacturer).
How to install a kitchen set
As already mentioned, the order of installation of lockers is arbitrary. You can first hang the top then the bottom or vice versa. It doesn’t matter. The order of installation is important: they always start from the corner. How even this first cabinet will be exposed will determine how easy further installation will go.
The mounting height of wall cabinets depends on the height of the “users”, but not lower than 45 cm from the level of the countertop. When hanging cabinets on the wall, mark a horizontal line. It can be drawn using a bubble or water level, but the easiest way is to deploy a plane at the required height using a level or a plane builder. The top edge of the mounting plate is set along this line or the cabinets are leveled when mounted on conventional canopies.
The task is both simple and difficult at the same time – to set the cabinets so that they are on the same level, and their walls are vertical and horizontal. In this case, there will be no problems during operation.
Since kitchen furniture consists of separate cabinets, they are fastened together. There are two options – install, then fasten, or fasten first, then hang. The second option is possible with the presence of assistants – even hanging two fastened cabinets alone is not an easy task.
Fasten the cabinets together with the help of intersection screeds. They are of different diameters and different lengths – under chipboard of different thicknesses. On one wall you need at least two screeds. They are placed in the area of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe loops – a little lower or a little higher. Two cabinets are placed in the same plane, their walls are fastened with clamps, a through hole is made – according to the diameter of the screed into which the fasteners are installed, it is tightened with a screwdriver or a screwdriver.
How to install a countertop on a kitchen set
To assemble the kitchen set completely, you need to install the countertop. It is fixed after the cabinets are pulled together. Steel corners are installed on the walls, with which the countertop is fixed. For subtleties in the processing of ends and cutouts for the sink, see the video.
How to process slices of laminated chipboard worktops, see the following video. It is useful for those who want to assemble a kitchen set according to all the rules.